Have We Reached Peak Testosterone?

我们是否已达到睾酮顶峰?

Radio Atlantic

2026-10-15

39 分钟
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Politics has seemed obsessed recently with performing masculinity. If there’s one factor that animated Donald Trump’s reelection and continues to animate the political right in general, it’s “masculinism,” a movement to fight back against the advances of feminism and reassert the primacy of men, as the Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis wrote in her June cover story. As the midterms approach, though, the administration—and masculinism with it—seems deflated. Have we reached “peak testosterone” already? Hanna Rosin talks with Lewis and her fellow staff writer Sophie Gilbert at a live taping from last month’s The Atlantic Festival about the evolution of the manosphere, why both Republicans and Democrats have put masculinity on a political pedestal, and where that leaves feminism. - - -Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Atlantic subscribers also get access to exclusive subscriber audio in Apple Podcasts. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/Listener. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • I had a thought, maybe it was when I was watching

  • race car after race car zoom loudly down Pennsylvania Avenue this summer,

  • and a very buff man standing next to me, dressed in a very tight red, white,

  • and blue overall shorts get up, cheering.

  • I had the thought that maybe we've reached peak testosterone.

  • That is, this long era we've been living in, fueled by Donald Trump,

  • but also other cultural forces, such as the Manosphere, has reached its organic, comical extreme.

  • And thus, the era might be on its way out.

  • It's just a theory.

  • But one I recently got to test.

  • I'm Hannah Rosen.

  • This is Radio Atlantic.

  • At the Atlantic Festival last month, I talked to two of my favorite writers on all things masculine and feminine.

  • Staff writers Sophie Gilbert and Helen Lewis for a live taping of Radio Atlantic.

  • Here is our conversation.